SteemFest's Hotel Deals Still Available: from € 55 / room / night (incl breakfast) - Book before mid September or prices go up and availability runs out as rooms become available for the general market again!

Hey hey! I am heading to Kraków this weekend for venues inspections, meetings with all suppliers and to put some bears in cages.

Prepping for the third iteration of SteemFest is well underway and with help of great sponsor's managed to get the plankton/minnow ticket price IMHO pretty affordable again. SteemFest is not an event for making profits, but an event for the community. Sponsorship funds go towards lowering the entrance fee for the plankton & minnow ticket, but I kindly ask you, if you have some Steem to spare, or did well last year's December (remember, remember those days in December?) to not abuse the plankton/minnow price and opt for a higher levelled ticket price closer to cost price.

Ticket price dynamic schedule - you know what price you get:

Last year 1/3rd of the bookings of the event came in the last 7 days prior to the event. That literally brought in unnecessary stress and costs because of last minute changes with catering and transportation logistics. If it is just up to me it is totally fine to book last minute, however the Chefs and such want to know prior to the event how much food they need to order :)

So this year, to force you into planning ahead, and hopefully preventing last-minute planning a dynamic schedule is implemented.

Please visit the completely updated SteemFest website which includes first program details, map of the venues, first speakers (many more to be announced) and links to the ticket shop / integral crypto ticket buy mechanism.

Btw. as a tradition, just like past 2 years, @knozaki2015 immediately when the shop opened. Pretty bold!

SteemFest tickets starting at € 277.77 until 21 september 2018

This year's minimum ticket price is a bit more expensive then last year, but still (IMHO) very attractively priced - The raise of € 66.66 - € 111.11 is due to forecasted & confirmed less sponsorship income, caused by bear markets.

That said, the 'Plankton Ticket' € 277.77 is priced at about 1/2 of the costprice of your attendance, thanks to the support of Steemit.inc and the sponsorship of @scorum.community, @steemmonsters and @smooth, who like the idea to have an event to be as inclusive as possible. Please thank them! - @SteemFest is still open for sponsorships btw.

Be sure to also read more on the @t-r-f page about the Travel Reimbursement Fund, I've just donated 1000 Steem to that account which gets distributed after Kraków to all applying attendees. Anyone is free to donate some to this community driven travel fund dedicated to SteemFest go-ers.

What's included in this price:

opening drinks night

2 days of conference incl lunch, dinner & drinks

4 nights of social events

closing dinner incl unique tour

tbd some activities in the weekend

swag.

livestream & recording for people who can't make it

I kindly ask, if you can reasonably afford it to look into options of buying another 'Ticket Type', for example the 'Regular Ticket' priced at 100% of the cost price of your attendance or even higher levels. Check out the SteemFest site's ticket section to learn more about all ticket types. Note that all tickets are equal by means of what you can do with them. Everybody is a VIP, it is just a matter of how much you contribute towards the event.

Manual Crypto Payments done through the SteemFest site in SBD / Steem / BTS are processed minimum every day at 10 AM CEST and 22 PM CEST by checking our email inbox and validating the incoming transfers on the @steemfest wallet (and the @steemfest wallet on Bitshares). Then we mail you a coupon code to claim your ticket. (you still need to claim your ticket after we mail you the couponcode!)

First Names SteemFest Kraków:

I'm happy to announce the first names for the 2018 edition of SteemFest:

FYI i've just donated 1000 STEEM to the @t-r-f Travel Reimbursement Fund - this fund is open to any community donations and will be distributed after Kraków to all attendees who applied for a piece of the pie.

Last year we didn't apply for this as I felt our trip was one of the shorter journeys and I had some fiat banked. I'll see how things are looking come November as to weather I can leave the pie untouched.

Exciting to see progress in what I likely to be another EPIC time with great people!

I like that your doing early discount tickets and expensive late ones as I remember last year the crazy amount of late buys. Atleast if it goes that way again it will cover it self with the extra cost. Good move!

Thanks for alll you do for this community and the world. You really are a stand up guy making great things happen.

Thank you for all of the updates @roelandp!! I’m so excited for those that will get to attend this year. My husband and I plan to make it to a SteemFest one of these years. Maybe I’ll still get to participate if you all do an art gallery again this year!! Us needleworkers from #NeedleWorkMonday really enjoyed participating and supporting the event from our homes :)

There we go! No savings whatsoever, a huge loan to pay back to people here and to top it all off: I am not a damn plankton anymore! (first time someone ever dislikes that lol). BUT, I made up my mind in Portugal last year, I am GOING, nothing will stop me. So gearing up to sell anything of value (no, not the kids...) and work non stop to make this happen. Thanks again @roelandp for making Steemfest happen!

Awesome - I love the 'trapped ticket prices', makes it possible for everyone to look in their wallets and see what they can miss :-)

I might contact you about the 'tours' and such in a few weeks to see how 'mobility friendly' they are, I'll probably walk with a cane / will be limited in walking, maybe we could arrange some scooters/smart transportation for those moments for those who need a bit of support like me.

finally its out! Thanks to the sponsors the tickets are lowered because coming from Australia is going to cost me a bit. and its great you have the trf program which will help people from coming overseas. great work team!

haha yes its pretty far isn't it. I wish walking is possible .... maybe need to put my swimming skills to the test as well .... lets hope the crypto markets improve or else i will definitely have to think about going down that path lololol

Me and @nathanmars would be going to Karkow on 27th and 28th August. We are hoping to explore the venue of the Steemfest, the hotel, nearby places to visit and do some reviews so people can benefit from them before coming to Krakow.

If anybody has any particular request about the city or Poland in general please do let me know so we can check it out and even include it in the reviews.

A lot of people would be traveling to Poland for the first time and we were just hoping to bring some useful information on the table that might help folks to have a better experience during the steemfest.

Holy shit! That'd be so cool.
I don't want to be too forward but I think if we are to meet than exchange of numbers might be required. I am using adamike188@gmail.com to communicate info for all things Steem.

That's really cool! We are also trying to do a little meetup in Warsaw on this Sunday to get to know the Polish Steemit community :-) We'd be honored to be able to meet any of you guys. Any suggestions????

I will do that man! Thanks for putting it out there. I actually was wondering about the tags since new ones might get the traction that old ones have and using old ones might look like trying to rip-off of the people who started it.

Hi Cala! SteemFest tries to be as inclusive as possible and wants as many as possible to attend regardless of income, status, origin, beliefs etc. Not everyone has the same income. SteemFest believes in people doing good, people being honest. This is why thanks to sponsorships we can offer a ticket rated at 50% of the costprice of that attandance. However we count on honesty of the buyer. If you did well, we ask you to kindly opt for a higher priced ticket, because, to be honest, we can't pay 50% of the budget with sponsorships (because at current sponsorship income forecast we can pay about 100 of the cheapest tickets, and then we also need the rest of the people to buy a 'Regular / Break-even ticket'.

Why would anyone buy a ticket at 200%? Because you then sponsor the attendance of someone else's ticket completely. By buying a 200% ticket, you fill up the missing costs of 2 Minnow/plankton people and sustain the event.

Up till this year this all worked out pretty nicely. Ofcourse if everyone would buy the 50% discount ticket we would have to take measures but up till now, people are still very kind and honest and it seems to be working out.

Thank you for taking the time to answer in such a complete way. I thought the price might be linked to how much steem you have in your account ( i.e if you are a whale you can't buy a plankton ticket ). Also I didn't imagine we had such a wonderful community which doesn't try to abuse the ticket system. Really impressed to be honest.